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Synopsis
Excerpt from The Coming Polity: A Study in Reconstruction
A convenient designation for this gladia torial and mechanistic conception of nature is lacking. Many epithets have been offered but none'choseni If it were to be christened after its original parents, something might be said for calling it British. But there can be no question it has been to wide and deep acceptance by German science, that the hypothesis has owed its academic prestige and much of its vogue in the popular mind. Still the test of belief is action. And it is. The Prussian State 'which has fashioned it into a comprehensive article of faith and a complete rule of life. Not to confuse the German nation with the-prussian State, let the epithet prussic, In Justice and merciful ness, be chosen as the fitting designation to carry down to posterity the gladiatorial and mechanistic interpretation of nature. The University of Berlin, special creation and spiritual organ of the Prussian Monarchy, has been to the world the Mecca of this faith.
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